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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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enabled "compileDSJob", "runDSJob" for DS-Developer-roles

"compileDSJob", "runDSJob" are currently enabled for DS-Admin-user-roles only, so this is working as designed for now. please enable APIs for DS-Developer-roles (like DS-Admin-roles)
about 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Developers need Administrator Privileges on Datastage to setup Bitbucket Access

We should have the capability for developers with their correct roles to be able to setup access to Bitbucket or GitHub. This creates an issue as we now have to give all developers elevated access to our development lanes which can cause issues wi...
about 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists

Cloned repository path does not work every time I log in and log out of Data Flow Designer

Everytime I logout of Flow designer and when I log back in, I am unable to check my code into an already configured Cloned repository path accessible to Information Server. It requests to configure a new path.
about 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Is a defect

Turn off .json file creation and check-in into Bitbucket

When the DS job is checked into Bitbucket, then along with the .isx file, a .json file also gets checked into Bitbucket. There is no value add here for the .json file and we cannot ignore all .json files since we might have a .json file for a java...
about 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Support for multi-byte string in the "View data" fnction

"View data" in Oracle Connector failed with error "ORA-01406: fetched column value was truncated" when multi-byte string is included in the column referred, although the job execution succeeded.This restriction reduces usability of the product, as...
about 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Datastage support for MSSQL server 2017 and 2019

Keep latest releases up to date and in line with the market
about 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Datastage Lock job

Hello We think that it will be a great addition to have the way to lock a job whitout being in the designer. Regards
about 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists

Password character check in installation software

Instead of having a list of valid characters displayed in some document/website would it be possible to display them prior to requesting the password for the infosphere datastage accounts. Demand for my secure passwords using special characters is...
about 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

IIS DataStage needs encryption key rotation

The latest version of IIS DataStage 11.7.1 has no documented ability to be able to change any keys used to encrypt password type data in the product. Security best practices are to periodically rotate the keys.
about 5 years ago in DataStage 3 Not under consideration

Remove Key column when Generating Multiple Files ie Filename

When using Sequential File as the output stage in Datastage, there is the option to generate multiple files. You also have the option to use a specific column as the key column and be used to name each of the files when generating the multiple fil...
about 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration